Posted on 12/24/2019 11:30:49 AM PST by karpov
About half of U.S. adults (51%) now consider a college education to be "very important," down from 70% in 2013. Over the same period, the percentages rating college as "fairly important" and "not too important" have both increased, to 36% and 13%, respectively.
Perceptions that a college education is very important have declined in the U.S. among all age groups since 2013, but the drop has been especially pronounced -- 33 percentage points -- among adults aged 18 to 29. As a result, younger adults are now less likely than middle-aged adults and seniors to consider college as very important, whereas the different age groups held similar perceptions in 2013.
Currently, slight majorities of adults aged 30 to 49 (51%), 50 to 64 (55%), and 65 and older (55%) say a college education is very important, compared with less than half of 18- to 29-year-olds (41%).
Consistent with what Gallup found in 2013, women today are more likely than men to report a college education is very important (57% vs. 45%, respectively), although the figures are down among both groups. In 2013, 75% of women and 65% of men said a college education was very important.
Black and Hispanic adults, two groups that are underrepresented in colleges and universities nationally, are more likely than whites to say a college education is very important. The differences in importance by race/ethnicity are generally consistent with 2013 measures, in which black and Hispanic adults were more likely than whites to view a college education as very important.
Less than half of Republicans (41%) say a college education is very important -- significantly lower than the percentages of Democrats (62%) and independents (50%) saying the same.
All major party groups are less likely today to say a college education is very important
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This is a good sign. If Trump should be re-elected with a solid Republican majority, then it’s time Republicans start cutting off taxpayer dollars to most of the crap that passes for education nowadays.
Meh, they’re all going to die in 11 years. Why bother?
That's for sure.
What would be nice is to have the trade schools back.
A plumber can find work ANYWHERE in the country/world.
The theory is that tradespeople's salary peaks at 40 years old and professionals' salary just BEGINS to rise at 40 years old.
However, you are correct college is not for everyone. I taught at a community college for 27 years. It was wonderful. No professors there thinking that their s**t doesn't stick...only young people going to school because they WANTED to. It's the perfect place to teach: no publishing required. If the students live in an expensive city then they WORK for their education.
Nothing wrong with that. My husband put himself through college at 29 years old. He became a mechanical engineer. Boy was he a smart guy! I still miss him.
Half in U.S. Now Consider College Education Very Important (down from 70% in 2013)
The Trend is in the right direction.
“College is not for everyone, and taxpayers should not be forced to subsidize it.”
Also, a master’s degree in hating White People, Christians and America has minimal value in the real world.
Minimal if any demand exists for Snowflake degrees at any level.
I suspect a good percentage of those who value a college education are connected in some way with colleges, universities, textbook publishers, testing and tutoring services, and, of course teachers’ unions.
If you can manage to get an education at college, it is valuable. But’s it’s much harder to manage these days.
I spend a lot of time at colleges and to me it’s adult day care (with a few exceptions for STEM).
A big company white collar employee's salary peaks at 40 years old, also - because they get laid off soon after that due to their costs exceeding their perceived value.
A skilled tradesman can starthis own business after hitting that 40- year peak, give younger workers an opportunity to master the trade and create wealth for himself.
My college kids and I were talking about some young guys we saw yesterday working on the public power lines behind our house. I told them what I thought these guys were earning per hour
My kids asked: Why am I going to college?
It's only true if the college tuition, books and residence are paid for by mommy and daddy. For those college students who have to work for tuition, books and a place to live...not so easy.
“College is not for everyone”
Correct. Especially those “college educated” Freepers who STILL could not state in their posts the simple difference between using “loose” and “lose” in a sentence (cough)
True, especially if said tradesman can deal with the paperwork and headaches of having employees (sick leave, pregnancy, injury, accidents, unions, etc.)
It's my guess that 50% of those FReepers never learned to spell or write and the other half are merely careless.
Public vs private schools...
Blacks and Hispanics are getting fooled.
They largely are not prepared for college-level work, so colleges have dumbed their curricula down for them.
The result? They are sinking into debt without accomplishing what they think they are accomplishing. (As a society, we will increasingly be taking low-skill college grads into professional positions. It’s coming!)
I’m an industrial electrician. If I get fired on a normal week day, I can have another job before the end of the next work day. And I don’t even live in a heavily populated area. If I want to move, I can have a job waiting for me by the end of the same day.
Kids are not learning to do what I do.
True, that’s another govt problem, created to hinder competition from small businesses.
A sentence should end with a punctuation mark, in your case prbably a period.
BTW, I was a High School dropout, before it was fashionable.
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